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Posted on: April 9, 2018

Mike Meyers, Registered Landscape Architect, joins Abonmarche as a Senior Landscape Architect in our Benton Harbor office. After serving in the US Army, Mike attended Michigan State University, and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture. Mike brings 17+ years of experience to Abonmarche, most recently as Vice President and Project Manager for a firm in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has experience with design, project management and business development with a wide variety of projects including commercial, resorts, casinos, marinas, public spaces, mixed use and master plans.

Posted on: April 9, 2018

Uma Kota joined Abonmarche as a Civil/Transportation Engineer. Uma graduated with her Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering in December of 2017 from Missouri University of Science and Technology. While attending college Uma was active in the Kappa Delta Sorority and Engineers Without Borders program. In the summer of 2017, Uma was employed by the Missouri Department of Transportation as a Construction Intern.

Posted on: March 28, 2018

Jason Marquardt, PE, has been named to the 2018 Moody on the Market 40 Under 40 list. The prestigious recognition program identifies forty dynamic young professionals making a difference in our community. Jason, a Senior Project Manager at Abonmarche, has been recognized for award-winning projects which improve the community, but still finds time to volunteer his time and talents. Perhaps his favorite community involvement activity is participating in the Starwatchers program at his daughter school.

Posted on: March 13, 2018

Abonmarche was presented a Surveying Merit Award during the American Council of Engineering Companies of Michigan (ACEC/M) Engineering and Surveying Excellence Awards ceremony on March 10. The ceremony honors firms for engineering and surveying excellence. The award was in recognition for Abonmarche’s work on the City of Portage’s “Natural Place to Move” initiative. The project included improvements to 6.34 miles of local neighborhood streets. Portage had a narrow timeframe for completion of the projects.

Posted on: December 1, 2016

Whether you’re presenting a project idea to a client or to the public at large, it can be difficult to know if the vision that you’re presenting is lining up with what your audience is imagining.

More and more, Abonmarche is seeing requests for project visualizations. When presenting a project, you can explain it in exhaustive detail, but a drawing or rendering can often communicate so much more.

There are a variety of visualization formats, from animations to renderings.

Posted on: August 25, 2016

Due to the many stormwater, asset management, and wastewater (SAW) grants awarded to communities throughout Michigan, cities are now taking a look at their assets and creating improvement plans that carefully balance costs against risk in order to prevent problems.

A geographic information system, or GIS, is a tool that can aid in the creation of these plans. Any community asset, from trees to benches to garbage cans to bus stops, can be logged in GIS. An asset’s exact location can be noted, as well as its condition, asset photographs, and any other information.

Posted on: August 8, 2016

Fluctuations in Lake Michigan’s water levels can have a big impact, especially on shoreline homes and infrastructure. But most don’t understand the range of these fluctuations and how to prepare for them, sometimes leading to significant problems.

There are three different types of Great Lakes water level fluctuations; short-term storm events, annual fluctuations, and long-term fluctuations, which typically cover 10-20 year cycles.